December 4 Maki Kaneko
seunghye on Oct 20 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
TBA
November 20 Susan Naquin
seunghye on Oct 20 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Susan Naquin, Professor, Princeton University "Getting Material about Material Culture" Friday, November 20, 4-6pm Cochrane Woods Art Center, Room 156 5540 South Greenwood Avenue
October 30 Julia Orell
seunghye on Oct 20 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Julia Orell
(PhD candidate, University of Chicago)
"The Yangzi River as Handscroll: Landscape Painting, Topography, Cartography"
Friday, October 30, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CWAC 156
October 22nd Alexandra Green
seunghye on Oct 20 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Alexandra Green
(Research Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong)
“Prioritizing Enlightenment: Organizing Burmese and Thai
Murals in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries”
Thursday, October 22, 4:30-6:30 p.m. (please note unusual date
and time)
CWAC 156
October 9th Sherry Fowler
seunghye on Oct 20 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Sherry Fowler
(Associate Professor of Japanese Art, University of Kansas)
Resounding with Meaning: Kannon and Bells
Friday, October 9, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
CWAC 156
June 5 Yuhang Li
seunghye on Jun 01 2009 | Filed under: Presentations
Communicatig Guanyin with Hair: Hair Embroidery in the Late Imperial China
Yuhang Li
(PhD Candidate, EALC, University of Chicago)
Friday, June 5, 4:30p.m.
CWAC, 152
Abstract
Hair embroidery is a particular technique practiced by lay Buddhist women to create devotional images during late imperial China. The embroiderers used their own hair as threads to stitch figures on silk. They particularly stitched Guanyin, the most prevalent female deity in China. In recent works on women’s talent, scholars have cursorily mentioned hair embroidery, but they have failed to study it in detail. In this chapter, based on textual references
and surviving hair embroidered Guanyin images, I explore the technique of hair embroidery, its religious connotations and then analyze the cultural significance of this practice. When women embroidered these images of Guanyin, they would create an object out of their hair, and put the product embodying an intimate part of their bodies in temples for all to see. In this way, women sought favors from Guanyin, asking her, for instance, to heal illness or demonstrate their filial piety towards their parents. Thus by offering a part of themselves to Guanyin, they attempted to be close to her. Investigating such practices sheds light on how intimate and non-intimate realms were constituted in relation to religious practice in late imperial China.
May 28 Aida Yuen Wong
seunghye on May 25 2009 | Filed under: Presentations
Kishida Ryūsei (1891-1929): Painter of Sublime Imperfection
Aida Yuen Wong
(Assoicate Professor of Fine Arts, Brandeis University)
Thursday, May 28, 6:00 -8:00 PM
Joseph Regenstein Library, Seminar Room 207
Abstract
Kishida Ryūsei (1891-1929), a painter renowned for his unconventional approach to realism, produced an oeuvre that the casual viewer likely finds disturbing. His distorted interpretations of Dürer and Jan van Eyck amounted to what the artist himself called “the Oriental grotesque.” In an age when yōga (Western-style painting) was firmly established on the foundation of French (Post-)Impressionism, Kishida’s dark-toned still lifes and non-idealizing portraiture represented a major departure. In the mundane, the imperfect, and the eery, he saw “internal beauty.” How did Kishida arrive at this perspective? What other sources besides the Northern Renaissance did he draw upon? The talk traces his Asian references, exploring the moment when Japanese modernism was poised to challenge the hegemonic standards of its Western counterpart. Possible connections with the Mingei (Folk-Craft) Movement will be investigated especially.
May 22, 2009: Christina Yu
jieshi on May 19 2009 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Constructing and Perpetuating an Identity in a Social and Cultural Network:
Painting of the Literati in Fourteenth Century China
Christina Yu
Ph.D.Candidate, University of Chicago
Friday, May 22, 2009, 4:30-6:30 PM
CWAC 152
Abstract
This presentation will include two parts. First it will introduce my dissertation, which focuses on paintings created and circulated in the literati community active in fourteenth century China and tries to demonstrate the importance of painting in scholars’ collective effort to construct and perpetuate their social and cultural identity. The latter half will present the second chapter entitled “gifts: recipients & dedicatory paintings.” This chapter analyzes the phenomenon that paintings dedicated to a specific recipient increased dramatically, many with the recipient’s name directly written on the painting surface.
May 19 Stephanie H. Donald
seunghye on May 17 2009 | Filed under: Presentations
Monumental Memories: A Discussion of Xu Weixin and his Pedagogic Art. Chinese Historical Figures, 1966-1976
Stephanie H. Donald
(Professor of Chinese Media Studies, University of Sydney)
Tuesday, 4:30-6:30 p.m. May 19
Joseph Regenstein Library, Seminar room 207
Abstract
Physical, aesthetic and emotional traces of difficult times may be both formally elided and yet crucially embedded in contemporary practice in arts and media, and this is quite evidently so in Chinese responses to the Cultural Revolution. This paper pays attention to the analysis of a series of images which have been constructed pedagogically and self-consciously to commemorate and enlighten the 80hou generation. In this discussion I explore the status of image recall, trans-regional and trans-generational ways of seeing, and the status of history in the process of of looking through and for affect in making sense of the series. The artist Xu Weixin has attempted to create a pedagogical, yet monumental archive in paint, but he has also tried to suggest a redemptive relationship between them and now. I discuss the role of mimesis in his work, and the degree to which we can understand these paintings as fragments of dialogue across generations, or as a soliloquy?
April 24 Stephanie Su
seunghye on Apr 19 2009 | Filed under: Presentations
Ruins and Travelers: The Representation of Roman Ruins in Yan Wenliang’s Work
Stephanie Su (Ph.D. student, University of Chicago)
Friday, 4:30-6:30 p.m. April 24
CWAC 152
Abstract:
This paper examines three representations of Roman ruins created by the Chinese painter Yan Wenliang (1893-1988) in 1930. These three works are unique in early twentieth century Chinese art in terms of its subject matter. Yan studied art in Paris for two years from 1928 to 1930, and before he finished his education, he made a three-week trip to Italy with friends. Many Chinese artists of that time who studied in Europe also travel
